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Legislation that would increase the number of licenses to grow medical marijuana and Gov. Larry Hogan's proposal to give a tax break to manufacturers top the list of unresolved issues as the General Assembly heads into the final day of its 2017 session.

The General Assembly adopted a capital budget project Wednesday that would cut Gov. Larry Hogan out of the process of approving the state's school construction plans.

As the House of Delegates nears an up-or-down vote on Gov. Larry Hogan's $43.5 billion spending plan Thursday, House budget chief Maggie McIntosh sees a lot of good news. Looming, however, are Republican President Donald J. Trump's expected cutbacks to the federal workforce.

As Congress and the Trump administration move toward a possible cutoff of federal money for Planned Parenthood, Democratic leaders in the General Assembly are rallying around a planto have the state fill the funding gap.

Tensions over the relationship between Maryland and the Trump administration bubbled over on the Senate floor Thursday as Republicans walked out after losing a procedural vote on a resolution expanding the attorney general's powers to sue the federal government.

Democratic lawmakers announced a push Monday to legalize and tax marijuana for recreational use in Maryland.

Gov, Larry Hogan outlined a budget Tuesday that he said reduces spending for next year while holding off tax increases or painful cuts to service.

Gov. Larry Hogan unveiled a package of proposals to boost manufacturing jobs and expand workforce training programs during a visit to Baltimore Thursday afternoon.

Maryland should spend $2.6 billion more on public education and revamp the formula used to calculate school funding, according to a two year study by a national consulting firm.

Marriott International said Tuesday it plans to commission new offices for its headquarters and build a hotel in downtown Bethesda, keeping its base in Maryland after securing incentives from the county and state worth about $60 million.

The state's budget makers will head into deliberations on next year's budget with about $800 million less to spend than they had previously expected after officials cut their revenue estimates Wednesday.

Controversial bills are being approved quickly enough by the Maryland General Assembly that if Republican Gov. Larry Hogan issues a flurry of vetoes, lawmakers will have time to override them before the legislature adjourns on April 11.

With support from conflicted senators from both sides of the aisle, the Maryland Senate voted unanimously Thursday to enact sweeping changes to the state's criminal justice system.

With three weeks remaining in the General Assembly's annual session, the majority of Republican Gov. Larry Hogan's agenda has garnered approval from the Democrat-dominated legislature.

Faced with a budget from Gov. Larry Hogan that presents few tempting targets, General Assembly Democrats are weighing how to assert their influence over which programs are guaranteed future funding and who receives tax breaks.

Hogan offered details Tuesday on a promised package of tax-relief measures, including a decade-long break to lure manufacturers to Baltimore and other areas with high unemployment.

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan on Thursday began building his case that Maryland can afford to grant the tax cuts he promised voters.

Gov. Larry Hogan's transportation chief told lawmakers Tuesday that there's nothing left from the money saved by canceling Baltimore's Red Line for major initiatives to improve transit services in Baltimore.

Maryland's top transportation official defended the Hogan administration's decision to reduce tolls on the state's bridges, tunnels and toll roads, insisting Tuesday that the move will not lead to compromises on maintenance or safety.

Busch, Miller dismiss Hogan tweet boasting of winning their districts

Sen. Richard Madaleno called Tuesday for a ban on state-funded travel to Indiana in response to a controversial new law that critics say opens the door for businesses to discriminate on religious grounds, including against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

State and local lawmakers called on Baltimore school officials Monday to rein in policies and practices that led the district to pay employees $42 million last year in accrued leave, bonuses, overtime, stipends and other compensation.

Although Gov. Larry Hogan campaigned on no new taxes and, in fact, wants to roll back some of the taxes he thinks were unfairly instituted, his budget proposal actually levies a specific (and punitive) tax, through a contorted fiscal slight of hand, on state employees. The way this is accomplished is by his decision to recast the cost of living adjustment state employees just received this fiscal year into a "bonus."

During the campaign that took him to the State House, Gov. Larry Hogan frequently railed against former Gov. Martin O'Malley's use of "gimmicks" to balance the budget.

Environmental activists and their allies are urging Maryland lawmakers to double the state's current requirement to get 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2022. But Gov.-elect Larry Hogan and even some sympathetic legislators seem likely to oppose it.

Zirkin named to head Senate Judicial Proceedings panel

State analysts urged lawmakers Tuesday to scrap Maryland's controversial film tax credit, arguing the state hasn't been benefited enough from the $62.5 million poured into television and movie companies since 2012.

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Gov. O'Malley's too-quick rejection of a nickel-a-bird tax on poultry raises questions

A divided Supreme Court struck down a federal law Wednesday that prohibited the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage, a landmark decision that will make federal marriage benefits available to legally married same-sex couples for the first time in the nation's history.

Lawmakers across Maryland lauded Wednesday the Baltimore school system's ambitious $2.4 billion blueprint to shed underused school buildings and upgrade the most dilapidated ones — calling the plan a critical first step in securing financial backing from the state

Baltimore City's schools chief told state legislators Tuesday that he hopes to borrow $1.2 billion— six times more than the school system's current bonding authority — to pay for a massive and rapid overhaul of the city's crumbling public school buildings.

Gay rights activists in Maryland said Monday that they are studying the success of their counterparts in New York, which over the weekend became the sixth state to approve same-sex marriage.

Gay marriage: Maryland's Senate passed a landmark measure allowing same-sex couples to wed, pushing the controversial issue to the House of Delegates, where the membership appears nearly evenly split